The frequent vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) really has fewer tooth than most bats
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Chew
Invoice Schutt (Algonquin Books)
Our evolutionary historical past bears the chunk marks of our tooth. And never simply on our outcrop of the mammalian divergence, however throughout an unlimited vary of animals, extinct and extant, backboned and never, evolutionary improvement has been formed, gnawed, chewed and chomped by tooth. Dentition is future.
This is among the most arresting concepts in zoologist Invoice Schutt’s Chew: An incisive historical past of tooth, from hagfish to people – a fascinating trans-species chronicle of tooth of…
